Thread by @drwhoknew

Sup y’all it’s ya boi I’m gonna be here giving commentary on HB1080 testimony and hearing this morning with the health and human service committee in the #sdleg
This is my personal commentary and is not value-free because I like to rant and have hot takes. 🧵

Right now they are hearing HB1078 for funding for adult day services which is great, aging in place and quality of services is important and also for disabled individuals. I won’t be snarky on this one.

Interesting, opponent testimony for funding purposes saying DSS is fine on funding? Rebuttals now. Rebuttal saying that this isn’t happening. Adds up 🤷🏻

Questions just seeming to clarify and explain additional info 🤷🏻 bill language, funding, etc. things legislators should actually care about instead of hurting trans kids.

Douche motions to pass onto appropriations w/ recommend do pass Healy seconds, unanimous pass

Now we are getting to HB1080. My heart is racing. Starting with proponent. If I stop tweeting I got too shaky.

Soye is opening and is prime sponsor. There is an amendment passed. Healy asks for amendment. “Cleans up language” Healy asks if it impacts birth control, no. My audio then paused!!!!?????

Turn on your mics. Do pass amend. Soye starts off with fearmongering with no basis in reality and misinfo. 8yr olds are not getting HRT. HRT does not sterilize. And my top surgery is not mutilation. I am beautiful. Soye, you are lost. That is sad. Not everyone is like you.

There is no empirical evidence of “aging out of being trans” Wish I could see her organizational endorsements. New testimony. Not from South Dakota. Detransitioner.

Detransitioners are valid but not when they use their experience to harm others. Wonder how much they paid this person to come from IA. And yes, bottom surgery comes with risks.

The religious trauma here is real. It’s making me sick and hurt. I hope this person finds peace.
Then this person says “transgenderism” 😬

It is important to know that for minors the process is much more extensive to prevent this experience and that detransition is rare. New testimony. A former pediatrician from Rapid City. “Embarrassed by his profession” and thinks the AAP is being harmful with the “sexual revol.”

Sexual dysphoria isn’t a thing, and I’m not trans because I’m depressed. Again, no empirical evidence for “aging out”. This guy is a joke to doctors. Trans youth are not “troubled”. And we’ve had puberty blockers since the 80s we know. My dysphoria stated in puberty.

It’s plastic surgery bud-
Would you recommend a rhinoplasty for someone who experienced extreme dysphoria after extensive therapy?
Trans kids are not weak. They are strong af.

New person also calls for restrictions on adults.
Again, this person has been sadly misled and uses their story to harm others. 😞
Not to insult this persons experience, but this is not a universal experience. This is not the average person.

Medicaid took over a year to approve my non-binary top surgery, even with a high BRCA precent. I’m not mutilated and I really hate being told that. This is making me so dysphoric not for wanting my breasts but for this rhetoric.

New testimony. A Dr??? An endocrinologist from CALIFORNIA. No one form SOUTH DAKOTA. And yes, gender is SOCIAL. PSYCHOLOGICAL. I am autistic and trans. That does not discredit my trans identity. These are times I want to crawl in a hole and unalive.

Those are RISKS, not GUARANTEES. Hell I’m on meds with worse side effects.
Why is the need to breast feed important???
And yeah, surgery has risks. Duh. That’s why bottom surgery is done explicitly on adults.

That Swedish study is so old 😬
If you’re worried about these Lupron side effects ban it for EVERYONE.
New testimony another detransitioner. 🥲

Note how these detransitions are not stating where they are from (probably not SD) and have been “saved” by religion.
Please stop using your stories to harm others.

6-7 minutes left of proponent. Another testimony. A “LGB” activist is here 😒
There is no LGB without the T.
Autistic trans people are valid.
Already a new testimony, someone from the CATHOLIC CHURCH.

And then back to back a Baptist preacher 😒😒😒
Leave religion out of this.
TikTok causes transgenderism 💀
This guy is gross

And a round of “me toos” 😒
Opponents up. Good luck my lovelies. I’m shaking.

Dr. Anne D is here to save this 😭💖
Anne, thank you for your service 🫡
Listen to this lady, she KNOWS.

ELLIOT BABY 😭💖✨ this kid is amazing and outspoken and intelligent

Oh poor kiddo is nervous- this kid is so amazing to work with I hope they are ok ❤️

Next up is Sam with the ACLU. Haven’t met her yet but heard good things.
And then she hits them with the ‘ol ACLU law stuff 👊

While Sam pops off, imma say that I emailed and never got a response :/

Next is the Episcopal leader for SD! And OOF DAMNNNNN CALLIN IT OIT LIKE IT IS CONTRADICTING HB1079 for suicide prevention I like this person. The Episcopal are sweet but once they get the church incense out r u n.

Next is a lobbyist and associated with the sd medical assoc. Calls hypocrisy. Tellin it like it is 🙌🏻

Wish I could go in there and pop off about being autistic and trans bc the proponents made it seem like such a big deal 💢

Next opponent, HRC lobbyist, brings up HB1057 from some years ago. My first bill I was involved with.

*insert hrc ad*
Also my dog is licking me :|

Next testimony, lobbyist for OBGYN
Now there is a new doctor on call, family physician and lobbyist. AAP support and describes gender identities as part of the human experience ❤️
My dog is worried and sitting on me ;-;

This guy spittin facts 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Y’all please send my dog love she’s more anxious than I am.
One more opponent. Another doctor also good
Tbh wish they got more trans youth to testify :/

These are the days that I wish that I somehow always had internal testees instead of ovaries and be intersex but that was ruined when they did a CT scan on me once and found ovaries (with burst cysts and free fluid) instead 🥲

Anyway this doctor talked about gender dysphoria and made really good points…I’m so tired of this. Please. Let it somehow magically die. Rebuttals?

Soye steps up and mocks WPATH, misgenders their president, and is overall a b*tch. Makes bad and reaching arguments.
No, this doesn’t punish parents, it punishes trans kids.
BULLSHIT THE SWEDEN STUDY IS OLD AF-

And yes, Soye, they ARE reversible that’s the POINT.
Sweden, really? We keep going back to Sweden? 😒
20 minutes left.

Oh look the douche is up. OH MY GOD HE BROUGHT UP FURRIES-

OMG I CANT 😭😭😭😭 THIS IS BS WTF @FredDeutsch

Hold up I gotta tweet @FredDeutsch
Fred, furries are people who like animals and art and anthropomorphic animals. They do not identify as animals. And if you’re thinking that schools are putting litter boxes out, that has already been debunked. You sound like a fool.

Erin Healy and Anne D are so cool and then Soye is lying

This guys struggling for an argument for why puberty blockers are so harmful 😂

Soye out here denying she’s discriminating against sex/gender.

Oh god one of these poor detransitioners sought out a diet and naturopath approach to recovery 😭 Pescatarianism can cure being trans-

Someone just said “the lifestyle” and then sam comes to the rescue with a statistic for the low amount of detransitioners

This hearing is going really long and now we are citing Irreversible Damage 😫😫😫😫😫

Douche moves to pass 😒 seconded
Dems second to move to 41st day and points out the non South Dakotan proponents and the legality (or rather illegality)
Healy makes a wonderful statement about the mental health of South Dakotans

I wanna hug Erin Healy
Voting on 41st day - does not pass. 😞
Voting on pass - 11 eyes 2 nays on party lines 🥺
I’m gonna go isolate now 🫥